This paper considers an economy with imperfect competition on the product markets. It studies the link between underemployment at all wages and feedback effects due to firms' activities. Since the economy is composed of local markets, we are able to endogenise the size of feedback effects. We...

This paper is about "involuntary unemployment" in general equilibrium models with imperfect competition. It surveys papers written after the seminal work of d'Aspremont, Dos Santos Ferreira and Gerard-Varet (1984). This unemployment is called involuntary because it exists at any wage. It results...

We investigate the link between "underemployment at all wages" and income feedback effects due to firms' activities in an economy with imperfect competition in the product markets. The size of income feedback effects negatively depends on the number of product markets. We strengthen a previous...